- Knowledgebase: Infant Feeding Problems
- Questions about nursing, formulas, spitting up, and colic.
- 8. When can my baby start on solid food? - Top
- The general recommendation is that babies' systems, including their swallowing system, gastrointestinal system and kidney system are ready for solid foods at four to six months. If a child is growing well, seems satisfied with his/her intake and renting well between feedings, they can go until Six. months. Some infants will send signals (hungry acting after a feeding, waking at night when they previously slept through) that they are ready at four months. Prior to four months of age, infants do not have a satisfaction center developed in their brain, therefore, do not know when they are nutritionally satisfied. After four- months, this center develops and you as a parent can depend on this signal to indicate they may need more in their diet.
- Updated: March 22, 2001
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